I'll sign!
Kirk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan K. Weedon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Entity beans, clistering and scalability
> Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > > an E10000 actually reduces total throughput, due to the extra
context-switching
> > > and/or memory contention overhead. We have a performance tuning paper
which
> > > illustrates this point.
> >
> > Can you share this white paper?
> >
> > Kirk
>
> Kirk,
>
> <vendor>
>
> Unfortunately, we can only provide this document under NDA.
> Why would this be? Well, this paper describes an implementation
> of the TPC-W benchmark built using Session beans and CMP entity
> beans on our AppServer. We implemented TPC-W, but did not go
> through the process of auditing our implementation (which is a
> very time consuming process). As per the TPC bylaws, unaudited
> benchmark results can only be provided under NDA.
>
> Interestingly, we had previously published this paper (not
> realizing we had violated the bylaw), but we were threatened
> with a legal action by BEA. Apparantly, BEA did not want
> customers to know how our system scales. (Either that, or BEA
> is surprisingly concerned about the TPC bylaws ;-)
>
> Going forward, we have been involved with the ECperf benchmark.
> Hopefully in the next few months, various vendors will start
> to publish their ECperf-based performance numbers. This should
> (finally) give customers a way to see which products have the
> best performance (rather than which companies have the best-
> performing legal departments). We will be publishing our ECperf
> numbers as soon as possible. It would be good for users to
> demand ECperf numbers from other vendors too.
>
> At some point, potential customers will be able to download
> ECperf configuration for each of their candidate AppServers,
> and will very easily be able to see which runs best on their
> given hardware setup.
>
> </vendor>
>
> -jkw
>
>
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